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[gsu1988]

I would like to join the wish team. I have been reading the post (especially about the Disney Marathon) for a while now and I think this is a wonderful group. Let me give you a little background about myself.

I was a cross country runner in high school and in college. After college I did not do a whole lot of running and of course I began to gain weight. During my running days I competed in events all the way up to half marathons (best time of 2:23) and triathlons but I never did a full marathon. Over the past several years I have on the diet yo yo. Losing and gaining losing and gaining. During those times I started running again and set the Disney marathon as my goal. Really for two reasons. 1. I thought it would be fun and 2. I grew up only an hour from Disney and have always been a bug Disney fan.

Well, I set my sights on 2007. As the year went along I knew that I needed to get going on my training but I never seemed to be able to get consistent with it. To make a long story short I still ran this January. My longest run leading up to the big day was 8 miles and I only did that twice. In fact I don't think I averages over 25 miles a week for the past year. Oh, I forgot to mention I weighed in at 250 before the race. Probably should not have tried the run but I wasn't going to waste $100. Did it finished (5:12:31) and now I am hooked and ready to really get serious for training.

I know that I will stick to it with WISH on my side I will be ready for 2008 and I will lose the lbs. and keep them off this time.

Looking forward to becoming part of the group

Ken

 

[mking624]

Alrighty, I'm rejoining. I've been conveniently ignoring this forum for too long...and I can't do that anymore. I first joined the WISH board almost 2 years ago...and did great! I dropped about 15 pounds and got down to my ideal weight. I wasn't doing any particular diet...just eating in moderation with timely spreading out of meals/snacks, and doing exercising. Then I stopped. We had moved to another apartment and our VCR broke (my fave workout was on VHS)...about two months later I had surgery and couldn't do any strenuous physical labor for about a month..and I just never got back into it. During that time, my eating went back up. I gained back those 15 pounds...and another 15 more!!! So now I'm back, with double the work to do since last time. Le sigh.

 

[angietuck2]

Mary - Welcome back even though you are a veteran and I am a newbie!!!

Ken - are you going to do the Disney Marathon in 2008, you should join the WISH training thread on the EVENTS/COMPETITION Board

Jullliana7 - how is it going with your goal, how do you do that with him being gone so long , my DH is fireman and is only gone 24 hrs every 3rd day and I hate it I hope you reach your goals!!

Colin- How is it going??

Kim10110- and congrats nothing like a wedding to make us want to feel as beautiful as possible, I hope all is well, can be a very stressful time too

And there are so many after.....

Oh my goodness !!! Thank god for a place like this where everone can encourage each other.


GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!
AND MY FAVORITE QUOTE FROM WALT DISNEY HIMSELF:
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

It's true, I would know.

Angie

 

[Disneynut71]

I love this. I have fought with weight all my life and this year I have decided to do something about it.

I have joined a gym and stuck with a diet and so far have lost 23 pounds.

I never thought to look to my dis friends for support. I would love to join the W.I.S.H team.

Thank you

 

[plgrn]

Count me in!

My goals are as follows.

1. Be able to jog a mile
2. Be able to go up a flight of stairs without being winded.
3. Become flexible enough to actually do Yoga and Pilates correctly.
4. Lose an inch off each arm
5. Lose one dress size.

If I lose weight in the process great. If not, that's ok too.

 

[hmbbears]

Please count me in! I have never been really thin but for the first time in my life I am calling myself fat and ugly and I do not like that. I have an auto-immune disease and for the first time in many, many years it is really under controll. I would like to get my weight under controll so that I can reallyfeel good! My goal right now is to quit drinking Doctor Pepper or any sugared soda. I plan to drink my six glasses of water and walk 3 times a week. I will start there and hope to get started on my first goal for weight loss which is 23 pounds. I have a lot more weight to loose then that but that is my first big goal.

I am excited to get started and I am so glad I found this forum!

 

[hmbbears]

Just testing my signature.

 

[FungLu]

I have run six marathons and have been an athlete all of my life, but I have never eaten healthy -- being active has been my excuse to eat whatever and whenever I want. I am going to do the goofy challenge in 2008 with the goal of training healthy. I have felt like crap for the last year and it is time I become more than just cardio healthy. Count me in. I will be celebrating after the goofy challenge in large quantities of meat and beer, but now I am going to reserve those times as special occasions instead of every weekend. I take it from the most of these posts on here that this is more female friendly, but I don't care it you don't mind having a dude along for the ride.

 

[plgrn]

you don't mind having a dude along for the ride.

I'm a newbie here to, but I gotta warn you... I automatically assume every Disser is a female. Thanks for reminding me that that isn't always the case.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Hello!

I would love to join up with the DIS WISH team. I am a single mom who has been dealing with weight issues all her life. After beating back cancer it is my goal to be as healthy as I can be. The best overall health I can achieve is my main goal with weightloss being at the start of that. I lost one lung to the cancer so I can not run great distances but I can walk and move and breathe.

 

[Fitswimmer]

I'm joining too! I had major surgery last year, put on weight and lost a lot of endurance afterwards. "oh, I can eat whatever I want, after all I had surgery." "I don't want to work out too hard, after all I had surgery." Well, it doesn't take long to fall apart doing that. I stopped by this board a couple of times, and found the Couch to 5K running plan. I've been doing that for a month, along with swimming and weight training. I'm seeing a difference in my endurance already. I'm swimming faster and I'm seeing some long buried muscle definition in my legs and my arms!!
My goal is to look good for my Vero Beach/WDW trip in May. I don't expect to be some skinny Minnie, after all I'm over 40 and I'm not planning to go on some starvation diet. I just want to look stronger and most importantly feel better.

 

[Katiebell]

OK, scoot over everybody, make room for me too...naw, a little more, a little more...there, I think I can squeeze in now

Hi, I want to be a WISH member too. I've been doing WW for 2 years, lost about 25 lbs, then have been stuck on a plateau for months and months. Really losing my motivation, but not much else I was injured at work, and had surgery a year ago, tried to go back but my dr. couldn't release me to full time with no restrictions, so I just had another procedure on 2/15. Hopefully, this will do it and I can get back on my job -- or I will have to start looking for something else. So...I haven't exercised like I should and I've been eating out of boredom, stress, etc...

My long term goals are sooooooo far away that I can't really see them...they are just tiny little dots on the horizon My short term goals are: on May 13 I will be at WDW. I would like to have lost 15 lbs by then (not too unreasonable, about 5 lbs a month). I would like to get re-motivated on WW, because I know it works...you just have to actually DO it I would like to increase my walking to 20-30 min consistently 3 times a week. And I want to start doing the exercises the physical therapist gave me for my arm, even though they hurt

 

[LightBurnsBlue]

Count me in! I have two main goals:

1) Get my weight down to 140 (never been lower than 149 in my life, currently hovering around 155)
2) Become a runner--I want to be able to run 5ks straight through--no walking!

I'm on the Couch to 5k plan right now and it's going great. I'm working out 5x/week and am generally watching what I eat by eating a healthy breakfast and lunch, and a reasonable serving of whatever I make for dinner. Also limiting alcohol content (a little tough when you're 22 and all your friends like to go out to the bars!)

 

[annieb727]

I would definitely like to join in here! This is VERY cool!!

We're going to WDW in September, and my goal is to lose 75 pounds by then (I've already lost 11)...so 64 to go!!

Now, my ultimate goal is to lose ~150, but I'll keep my goals smaller. I would like to be 150lbs, and I am currently 302. Wow...can't believe I told all of you that...well now that I'm past that, LOL...

I have cut out white, refined processed sugars and flours, as well as fried foods and bad stuff like that. I am also counting calories, but it seems that is mainly to make sure I get ENOUGH calories, I am doing 1600 calories/day. I am just starting in the exercising stuff, but that's been hard with lots of foot pain but I'm still working up to it! Went for a short 10 minute walk today...so it's a start anyway.

I've been overweight pretty much since middle school - and then I had baby #1, lost a TON of weight. I was down to 180lbs and wearing a nice size 14/16 - the first time that I could remember EVER shopping in normal size clothing!! Then I got pregnant again and literally gained 50 pounds in about 3 months . I told my husband that I wasn't even going to TRY to lose weight until we were completely finished having kids - it was too devastating to lose all that weight and gain it all back again.

Well, now dh has been snipped for almost two years, so I have no excuses now! LOL. So here I am...on the road again...hoping for this to be my last time...

So if I understand this right, I don't count the 11 I've already lost (I started my diet about three weeks ago). So I would start counting from 302?

Thanks!!

 

[Rustysmom]

Can I join?

I lost 21 pounds since January 1st, but I need to lose 46 more, which would make me 150 pounds, which I think is a great weight for me. I'd like to lose most of it by my vacation in August.

I lost 35 pounds 2 years ago and felt great, but then I got lazy and it crept back on last year. I can't believe I let that happen. So here I go again and this time I intend to keep it off.

 

[Madsofa]

Can I join? I'd like to lose about 20lbs. I've joined weight watchers and am watching what I eat. I also joined a yoga class in February - never thought it would be a "workout" but was I wrong! I'm in my mid-thirties and would like to get back my pre-baby body. My youngest is three so I've been putting it off for awhile! We leave for our first Disney vacation in 5 days - so I'll get down to business then - I'll probably have to lose 25-30 lbs though We're doing the dining plan!

 

[auntread]

Hi, I'd like to join too please! I just joined Weight Watchers 6 weeks ago. I have lost 13 lbs so far, but the rules state to go from my weight when I sign up here. So, my current weight is 226 lbs. and that will be my starting point here.
My sis and I go to WDW quite often, and we take a diff niece or nephew each time they turn 10 yrs old.for their special trip. Our other sis (5kids) and our brother(3kids) have kept us going for years. Now there are only 2 left to go!!
we go next february with Shamus. In November '06 just DSis and I went. We had a pic taken of the two of us at the Roy and Minnie bench. She had Gastric bypass surgery on Feb. 6. She's heavier than me and she also is diabetic, so the surgery is a good route for her. anyways, our plan is to recreate that picture next February to showcase our weight losses. Maybe by then I will put my own pic in my signature or avatar. Those are two of my beautiful nieces in there now.
Thanks for having this I think W.I.S.H. is a fabulous idea!

 

[BethanyF]

I just started a thread for myself, but decided to post here too.

In a nutshell, my medium range goal is to be either in a size or at a weight that starts with 1 by November 2008 (for our 20th anniversary DCL cruise)
Once I get to that point, than I would love to get down to 150 or lower. But for now I am looking for that 1.

 

[Katiebell]

I just started a thread for myself, but decided to post here too.

In a nutshell, my medium range goal is to be either in a size or at a weight that starts with 1 by November 2008 (for our 20th anniversary DCL cruise)
Once I get to that point, than I would love to get down to 150 or lower. But for now I am looking for that 1.

I like the way you phrased your goal! I am close to a size that starts with a 1, but unfortunately a ways away from a weight that starts with a 1 *sigh* I'm fairly tall, so I think that's why I'm so much closer to the size than the weight.

 

[annieb727]

I like the way you phrased your goal! I am close to a size that starts with a 1, but unfortunately a ways away from a weight that starts with a 1 *sigh* I'm fairly tall, so I think that's why I'm so much closer to the size than the weight.

I really like that too!!! I didn't phrase it like that -- but one of my goals is to get to a size 18 - so I guess I have that same goal too